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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 29 1950 the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments why does the cbc presume that it needs any paper free or otherwise recent objections to the canadian broadcasting cor porations proposal to make every licensed radio owner an involuntary subscriber to its weekly program by raising the license fee 250 seems to have laid that threat to free dom low however there are reasons to believe that merely objecting to this method of financing the publication of a stateowned periodical or circulating it on any other basis for that matter is totally undesirable in fact it would probably be in the best interests of cbcs financial setup and the welfare of the canadian public to disband the entire project as being unnecessary and highly dangerous there are scores of newspapers and periodicals in the country which will disseminate any legitimate news the cbc may make available and these same outlets will doubtless be glad to carry as paid advertising anything which comes under that heading in addition they will probably do it cheaper and better in the final analysis than any govern mentcontrolled publication why the cbc presumes that it needs any paper free or otherwise is a mystery when privatelyowned radio out lets can get along nicely without one there is something about the whole situation which doesnt just ring true and calls for vigilance on the part of the people of canada the idea that every government agency needs a pub licity branch is very popular currently with the agencies not so with the public who still prefer to get their news from sources with no axes to grind repaint the fire plugs heres a suggestion that might well come under the jurisdiction of several local committees or organizations such as the municipal betterment committee of the local lions club the fire brigade and eventually the local muni cipal council just how long it is since the local fire hydrants received a coat of paint we cant say but we venture to say its more than two decades its only a small item but there is something clean and tidy about a street with wellmarked hydrants with a coat of brilliant firechief red we pride ourselves in stouffville in our wellkept lawns and gardens and our wellgroomed homes in the same vein we might pride ourselves in wellgroomed fire hydrants the mark of an uptodate fire brigade which we have some of our neighboring municipalities do the job quite frequently wind power test the orkney islands are notoriously windy the prin cipal source of power on the islands is the diesel engine diesel oil is relatively inexpensive yet too expensive for the orkneys after surveying the islands the north of scotland hydroelectric board has decided to build a windmill on the windiest spot in the orkneys which is costa hill the experimental plant according to the new york times will be subject to gales which are exceeded in sever ity only by those that prevail at times near the poles the tower will be built of steel on solid rock the sails will be each 30 feet long this experimental windmill with a capacity of 100 kilowatts is to generate alternating current which will be fed into an 11kilovolt transmission network the research engineers who will watch this windmill will be principally interested in its annual output and its trustworthiness if this experiment indicates that windpower is more than a romantic possibility scotland and britain too will probably be dotted with plants the more hopeful engineers in scotland believe that windmills to drive 1250kilowatt generators are around the corner and that 5000kilowatt generators the probable maximum capacity are not wild improbabilities editorial notes the men and women who dont appreciate baby talk never had one of their own summer never really comes until weve dipped our winterweary feet into a refreshing country brook now if it could only put floors and ceilings on the thermometer what a wonderful government wed have decision of the dairy farmers of canada to finance and direct an advertising program for dairy products makes good sense sound advertising is essential to intelligent marketing we often wonder if our governments might not be run just a bit more efficiently if we remembered that our poli ticians and civil servants are not our bosses but rather hired hands hired to work for us according to old testament professor n h parker of mcmaster university hamilton noah is one of the great unappreciated financial geniuses of all time he floated a large company when the rest of the world was in liquida tion top prize for canadas bestloved husband went to a man who on their tenth wedding anniversary gave to his wife a solemn pledge to do the dishes twice a week for the next twelve months while she sat down to read the paper whitchurch conservation club picnic tour wednesday july 5th 1950 900 am community hall vandorf tour york cotinly forest area 100 pm midhurst park for lunch 230 pm tour of plantation and aquariums those wishing transportation and those having extra transportation accommodation please notify the committee not later than june 30th everybody welcome come and bring the family and picnic basket l- j harper pres john crawford secy- tolerating bookies is danger for all financial post toronto the good has finally started to show signs that it might do something to control the giant crime network which runs the bookmaking industry the reason for officialdom gett ing stirred up about it right now is apparently political the sport ing interests of the city are plan ning to run and back with enormous campaign funds their candidate for mayor if successful he in return is supposed to turn toronto wide open and make life very nice for his backers vith that cloud on the horizon the present city fathers and the local newspapers have finally decided to listen to what police chief chisholm has been telling them for some time more than a year ago the fin ancial post made a close examin ation of this industry and exposed it as one of the largest businesses in the city police estimates which they con sider to be on the low rather than the high side are that the can adian illegal betting industry of which toronto is the centre runs 150 millions a year almost four times the amount bet legally at the tracks some 90 of the bookie business reaches into business offices and plants people close to the racket tell the post that almost every big city office or plant employing 20 or more has its bookie or bookie agent in one factory the post found that co of the 120 employees bet regularly and nearly all did occasionally in gambling circles toronto is rated one of the best thats gamblingest cities on the con tinent bookies are estimated to number at least 2000 working toronto on the week ends is reported to be popular and profit able for some of the big us game operators admittedly the police problem is great getting evidence which is presently satisfactory to the courts is extraordinarily difficult because bookies and their runners do the business by phone verbally with sheetwriters in some back room but the greatest handicap to blocking this business is the cynicism and indifference of the public and the courts more or less constantly the police are feeding a line of bookies into the courts sentences are often a mere s200 fine which is just like a license fee in a business so profitable and income tax free as this tjiey are back in business again the next day adding a 60- day jail term merely gives the sheetwriter a rest from his nerve- racking work both the public and the courts are prone to view that oh its the huron indians came to just a little bet everybody wants i huronia from the southwest or a flyer now and then from the iroquois country as that is true enough what it suggested by the french explorer overlooks entirely is the serious champlain and the jesuit editors mail to the editor monday night a small sick dog was taken from its home returned wednesday very early on thurs day the poor little thing died in terrible agony what apparently was strychnine poisoning surely such an act is too terrible to think of not long ago a very valuable dogj disappeared from the same neigh bourhood ballantrae and was found drowned in the lake surely the dog owners should watch for this person or persons the little dog was a poor sick little fellow and could not even run across a neighbours lawn to do it any harm lets hope the cur that uses poison be caught and properly dealt with 730 families 2200 children receive york aid services seven hundred and fifty families involving 2200 children received childrens aid service from the york county society dur ing 1949 it was reported by w h bury executive director in his annual report on the societys activities five hundred and fifty ross linton appointed mr ross linton exmayor of aurora has been appointed to the position of secretarytreasurer of the york county health unit unmarried mothers and their child ren were looked after as well as an additional sco children through the childrens aid shelter and boarding homes liberal convention to name leader nov 910 the ontario liberal association will meet- in toronto nov 910 to select a new provincial leader dates of the convention were announced saturday at a meeting of the management committee of the association the convention was necessitated by the resigna tion as provincial leader of farquhar oliver present house leader in the legislature association president norman l matthews reported that federal immigration minister walter e harris mentioned prominently for the provincial post had declined to stand mr matthews mentioned four candidates now in the running they are campbell calder mem ber of the legislature for london w a benidickson member of parliament for kenorarainy river a st clair gordon former provincial secretary and peter wright of toronto walter c thompson mp for ontario riding has also announced he will be a candidate toronto mayor touched off coboconk hunt when mayor hiram mccallum of toronto set off a charge of dynamite on the front lawn of his cottage property near the village of coboconk he also set off an archaeological expedition the dynamite charge showed the mayor with indian relics dating back over 500 years and this sum mer archaeology students have flocked to coboconk to try to fill in some of the blanks in the his tory of the indians in ontario prof norman emerson in charge of the expedition says the party is making some headway in settling the question of whether and dangerous fact that this toler ance for the citizens little illegal ities is tolerance for an enormous criminal industry diverting vast sums of money into illegal channels it is this tolerance which is making crooks of some of the very rich men in the community and which enables them to move in on other businesses legitimate and illegitimate perhaps the most serious danger of all is civic corruption crooked profits are vast and the pay of politicians and police is not how much graft there is in lower echelons of authority we dont know but very ugly rumor sur rounds certain police resigna tions and some things like the bookies who for years have oper ated in the shadow of city hall look very curious once little graft and fixing are established a city is on the tobog gan slide to big graft of the most cancerous kind the bookie business is no matter for complacence its growth and present influence are as alarm ing as the presence of a fatal disease judging by the pottery we have dug up here so far it looks as though the jesuits and champlain were right prof emmerson says we are making some very interesting finds the pottery at first glance can probably be dated about 1150 it is of the iroquois type i should say that the indians who left it were mohawks indian point where the party is working is believed to have been the site of an ancient indian vil lage the expedition is made up of archaeology students from mcgill and toronto universities the absentee ballot was first used during the civil war when 11 union states permitted men absent on army duty to vote ix memory of walter parmer dearest walter you have left us and our loss we deeply feel but tis god that hath bereft us he can all our sorrows heal now your place at home is vacant and your face we sadly miss but we soon shall be together in those realms of heavenly bliss in the resurrection morning when the saints are gathered home we shall meet you with our loved ones with our saviour round his throne there to dwell in joys immortal where no death shall ever come and to hear with all the faithful weary pilgrims welcome 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